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05-20-2014, 11:10 AM
http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/3FU1j2yoZG.lDGc6nNvQYg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/US-AFPRelax/000_hkg9833824.36e2e082527.original.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/japans-hitachi-unveils-joking-robot-120049341.html)Japanese scientists unveiled a robot with a sense of humour Tuesday, and claimed it was capable of knowing when its jokes had fallen flat The pint-sized roller-skating EMIEW2 -- pronounced like the flightless bird -- is able to have a short conversation with a human being, without being given a script. Engineers at Hitachi have programmed the android to understand a range of human responses, including non-verbal signals like nods. At a demonstration in Tokyo on Tuesday, the 80 centimetre- (32 inch-) tall device answered a question on the number of people working at the Hitachi facility with the somewhat surreal: "We have two swans."
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